PY04 Older Youth Employment Retention Rate State Rankings
This map shows the Entered Employment Rate rankings for the WIA Older Youth program in PY 04. The rate ranges from a high of 95.7% in the Tennessee to a low of 60.6% in Vermont. The map highlights the ten highest and lowest states for this ranking. The ten highest states in order are Tennessee, Idaho, District of Columbia, Wyoming, Maryland, Nebraska, North Dakota, Maine, Arkansas, and Iowa. The ten lowest states from top to bottom are Arizona and Nevada (tied), Massachusetts, Ohio, Delaware, Pennsylvania,
New Mexico, Alabama, Kansas, New York and Vermont.

Table 1
| PY 04 WIA Older Youth Employment Retention Rankings and Outcomes by State |
| Rank |
State |
Outcome |
| 1 |
Maryland |
93.2 |
| 2 |
Puerto Rico |
92.4 |
| 3 |
Nebraska |
92.2 |
| 4 |
North Dakota |
91.4 |
| 5 |
District of Columbia |
90.9 |
| 6 |
Arkansas |
90.3 |
| 7 |
Idaho |
90.0 |
| 8 |
Wyoming |
89.0 |
| 9 |
Kentucky |
88.7 |
| 10 |
South Carolina |
88.6 |
| 11 |
Kansas |
87.9 |
| 12 |
Texas |
87.8 |
| 13 |
Oklahoma |
86.7 |
| 14 |
Minnesota |
85.6 |
| 15 |
Mississippi |
85.5 |
| 16 |
Wisconsin |
84.8 |
| 17 |
Montana |
84.3 |
| 17 |
Washington |
84.3 |
| 19 |
Iowa |
84.2 |
| 19 |
New Mexico |
84.2 |
| 21 |
Tennessee |
83.9 |
| 22 |
Connecticut |
83.8 |
| 22 |
New Jersey |
83.8 |
| 22 |
South Dakota |
83.8 |
| 25 |
Illinois |
83.7 |
| 26 |
Michigan |
83.5 |
| 27 |
Colorado |
83.3 |
| 28 |
Alabama |
83.1 |
| 29 |
Indiana |
82.9 |
| 30 |
Oregon |
82.8 |
| 31 |
Louisiana |
82.6 |
| 31 |
Virginia |
82.6 |
| 33 |
Georgia |
82.5 |
| 34 |
North Carolina |
82.4 |
| 35 |
Missouri |
82.2 |
| 36 |
Utah |
81.7 |
| 37 |
West Virginia |
81.4 |
| 38 |
Ohio |
81.3 |
| 39 |
Arizona |
81.1 |
| 40 |
Massachusetts |
80.7 |
| 41 |
Hawaii |
80.0 |
| 42 |
California |
79.8 |
| 43 |
Maine |
79.3 |
| 44 |
Nevada |
78.8 |
| 45 |
Florida |
78.5 |
| 46 |
Pennsylvania |
78.3 |
| 47 |
Rhode Island |
77.1 |
| 48 |
Alaska |
76.0 |
| 49 |
New York |
74.8 |
| 50 |
New Hampshire |
74.1 |
| 50 |
Vermont |
74.1 |
| 52 |
Delaware |
68.6 |
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